Competitive Strategies in Knowledge-Intensive Business Services: Evidence from Lombardy

Nicoletta Corrocher, Lucia Cusmano and Andrea Morrison

Chapter 12 in Exploring Knowledge-Intensive Business Services, 2012, pp 231-251 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Knowledge-intensive business services (KIBS) are the emergent players in the debate about innovation systems, knowledge-driven economic dynamics and competitiveness (Muller and Zenker, 2001; Miles, 2005a; Muller and Doloreux, 2007). A burgeoning literature stresses their role as co-producers of innovation and source of added value for regional systems, as well as network nodes and convertors of generic knowledge into specific one. KIBS are perceived as complementary to knowledge-based manufacturing sectors (Strambach, 1998; Czarnitzki and Spielkamp, 2000), contributing to its competitiveness especially in advanced regions, where the performance of manufacturing firms increasingly depends on the knowledge contents provided by highly specialized suppliers.

Keywords: Distribution Channel; Price Competition; Service Production; Computing Service; Service Firm (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1057/9781137008428_13

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